(at least smp) fc5 kernels after 1788 have excessive kernel overhead

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:30:32PM -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
 > dell poweredge 2400 dual 1ghz processors. (at least smp) kernels after
 > 1788 have enormous kernel processor overhead.

yep. It's deliberate, as its profiling kernel allocations. (see /proc/kmalloc)
I'll switch it off in a day or two (though there's some other
potentially intensive stuff coming soon too).

		Dave